22-10-2015, 06:08 AM
David Josephs Wrote:The extant film is in no less than 7 pieces.
It does NOT have 0183 stamped anywhere on it.
It has over 40 feet of film spliced together when 1 side of film is 30 feet max
0184 is never accounted for yet is referred to in Max Phillips' note to Chief Rowley when he sends what he claims is a 3rd copy, yet he does not give Zapruder more than the original when we know he had a "best copy" that is given to Stolley on Saturday.
Hi David - wow, that's superb, thank you for posting that. I've never seen it summarized so neatly.
There is an interesting angle to this, which is that in Altgens 6 you can clearly see two Secret Service guys looking backwards and up to the right, towards the top of the TSBD.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that this activity is completely missing from the Zapruder film. There is no point at which those two SS men look backwards and up to the right, the same way they do in Altgens 6. At 18-ish fps, there's no way such a thing could happen "between frames", the human body isn't that fast. It's possible then, that this activity is in the missing "turn sequence" which has been taken out of the z-film.
It seems to me, that one of the number one priorities would be to remove any evidence that indicates "more than three shots". And, almost equally, anything that would indicate shots from anywhere but the rear. It seems to me that the turn sequence issue might fall into the former category. People argue about whether the Z-film shows Connally getting hit by a separate bullet, in my opinion it does (perhaps for some reason they couldn't remove that part, or maybe they didn't know when the Tague story came out, ha ha). However then, an additional shot causing an obvious SS reaction would perhaps indicate yet another shot that would have to be accounted for. The first shot was the "surprise" shot, yes? People said it sounded like a firecracker (loud and noticeable), so if anything would cause an orienting reaction it would be that first shot.
The behavior of those SS men in the Z-film is kind of odd, it's... unnatural, somehow. Either it's out of sequence or they've perhaps mucked with the action in the car so it's in a different place (time-wise) than it should be.
But all these things, raise serious doubts about that film, and then when combined with the actual chain of custody which we can now approximate, it casts so many shadows on this particular evidence that it becomes almost useless in terms of real analysis. I wouldn't bother, for instance, calculating any timing based on that film, there's just too much evidence of alteration, rendering any such analysis rather pointless. Or the "direction of the shots"... they're clearly showing us what they want us to see, and the rest they've managed to obscure somehow.
Officer Chaney, there's another good one. He says he rode up to Curry's car before they got to the underpass, and that activity appears nowhere in the Zapruder film. There's just too much of this stuff...